All roads lead to Rome

The outskirts of Florence look like any other kind heavily tagged European city but the internal city of Florence is absolutely beautiful and its like stepping into the renaissance era of Italy, except with neon-lit gelato stores.

The rape of the Sabine Woman, very interesting piece, it gives you a difference perspective of the story depending on where you're  standing around it. 

We headed into Florence for a walking tour, the guide was very passionate (you could tell because of the frantic hand movements) and knew a lot about the detailed history of Florence. After the tour we had quite a bit of free time, that was spent eating pizza and gelato.

Me trying not to have my pocket picked.

1:30 rolled around and we all got on the coach and headed to Rome. Again, as with Paris my first impressions of Rome were not great. I though it looked like another slum. We got to our hotel (which to be honest sux) and dropped off our stuff. We then headed out for ANOTHER walking tour (its almost like our tour guide thinks we are fat from too much gelato).

The Pantheon, in all its 'people trying to sell you crap' glory

We saw some pretty gosh darn cool sights (like the Pantheon and the Colosseum) and stopped off for some kai mid way through. Once we got back to hotel we crumpled to a heap on our bed for sleepytime.

The Colosseum looks pretty gosh darn spiffy at night time